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Swallow summer
- Title
- Swallow summer / Larissa Boehning ; translated from the German by Lyn Marven.
- Author
- Boehning, Larissa, 1971-
- Publication
- [Manchester] : Comma Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- iii, 140 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Each character in Larissa Boehning's debut collection experiences a moment where they're forced to confront how differently things turned out, how quickly ambitions were shelved, or how easily people change. Former colleagues meet up to reminisce about the failed agency they used to work for; brothers-in-law find themselves co-habiting long after the one person they had in common passed away; fellow performers watch as their careers slowly drift in opposite directions. Boehning's stories offer a rich store of metaphors for this abandonment: the downed tools of a deserted East German factory, lying exactly where they were dropped the day Communism fell; the old, collected cameras of a late father that seem to stare, wide-eyed, at the world he left behind. And yet, underpinning this abandonment, there is also great resilience. Like the cat spotted by a demolition worker in the penultimate story that sits, unflinching, as its home is bulldozed around it, certain spirits abide"--Page 4 of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Schwalbensommer. English
- Alternative Title
- Schwalbensommer.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Translations.
- Note
- Fisrt published in the German language as Schwalbensommer, 2003.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- Melon belly -- Silent fish, sweetheart -- Full speed ahead in neutral -- From above -- North star -- Matchstick cathedrals -- Acting, or walking around the island -- Sealed sea -- A cat in hell -- Something for nothing.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-2440
- ISBN
- 9781905583447
- 1905583443
- LCCN
- 2016435770
- OCLC
- 968246132
- Author
- Boehning, Larissa, 1971- author.
- Title
- Swallow summer / Larissa Boehning ; translated from the German by Lyn Marven.
- Publisher
- [Manchester] : Comma Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-2440